Speaking
Popular topics include motivation, mental health, team dynamics and more
Matt Day is an Edmonton-based keynote speaker available for conferences, professional development days, and corporate events across Alberta and Western Canada.
He combines live music, genuine storytelling, and neuroscience-backed insights to create presentations that don’t just inform — they stick.
Matt’s talks are built around music as a metaphor for how we work, lead, and connect. Every presentation is customized to your organization, your theme, and your people, and delivered with the warmth, humour, and stage presence that keeps an audience of any size fully engaged from the first note to the last word.
“Our group of 80+ leaders convened after years apart, in the context of increasingly stressful work environments and pending organizational changes. Having Matt guide us with insight, humor, and musical connection was exactly the engaging and inspiring session we needed to buoy our collective energy and renew our focus. His consultation process led by curiosity and a genuine desire to hear our stories resulted in a customized approach using musical metaphors that ignited the leadership skills and mindset needed for team connectedness, support, and empathy. The feedback from participants was overwhelmingly appreciative.”
~ Kristen Ward, Sr. Project Manager | Alberta Health Services
Keynotes
The Crescendo Effect
Matt’s most requested keynote.
The Crescendo Effect draws on the habits and mindset of professional musicians and invites audiences to apply them to their own work and lives. Practical, memorable, and genuinely fun — this talk opens doors.
The Harmony of Teamwork
An engaging music-metaphor keynote that reminds every person in the room of their unique voice within the organization. The Harmony of Teamwork helps teams understand their value through musical mechanisms that make the key messages unforgettable long after the event is over.
“Matt Day was the afternoon keynote for our 1,400 teachers and support staff at our system wide professional development day. Matt’s presentation was energizing, enthusiastic, and engaging. Our event theme was Recreating Connections and Matt worked this along with our three pillars for the year into his Crescendo Effect presentation. We couldn’t have had a better close out to the day and kickoff to the new school year.”
~ Lyle Stecyk, Facilities Superintendent | Prairie Valley School Division